Within his points: Pens were too much North/south and HCDB needs to adjust and bring his centers back deeper. The flyers are picking that off.Young grinders on philly winning lots of battles in corners and on wall.

States pens are a great team from the hash marks out , a great 135' team, maybe the best. They are week below the hash marks and behind the net. From 1/2 point of game one flyers dump in and grind game killed the pens.

Old news now, but nice to see a former coach comment and dissect what happened.

Sarcastic wrote:What's he doing now? Let's hire him as an assistant. I think that Bylsma could use some help. Just my opinion.

Well, despite me not being happy him saying "he's a Flyer" and was obviously pulling for the Flyers, you can take two things he touched on. One was obviously wrong and one was obviously right.

He only briefly touched on it, but he commented one Bylsma's game plan, which obviously didn't change and the Penguins suffered. It's my biggest knock on Bylsma. He doesn't change or adapt.

He commended the Flyers on the choices they made and what they could have done as far as trades. The Devils are obviously just an excellent team this year, but maybe if the Flyers did what Tocchet said he's happy they didn't do, the Flyers would have excelled. Maybe they need more veteran presence and should have traded for one or two of those older players.

Oh and I was jammed up at times when he represented himself as a Flyer on twitter but he's drawing a paycheck from a Phila media source so that makes sense. He did play for the Pens alumniin the WC alumni game...although he was great as a Flyer you can't take away that cup he won here, a bond for life.

During flyers/devils - tocchet also mentioned new jersey was attacking the fact that all the flyers d were left handed. They were dumping in to the right side and taking away the forehand for philly's defense, forcing them to move it on the backhand behind the net I believe. It worked.

DropEmJayBird wrote:During flyers/devils - tocchet also mentioned new jersey was attacking the fact that all the flyers d were left handed. They were dumping in to the right side and taking away the forehand for philly's defense, forcing them to move it on the backhand behind the net I believe. It worked.

Something else that the Devils did was not buy into the Flyers goon tactics. That's part of the Flyers MO. When that didn't work for them they lost their swagger, and with that, their cool. In other words, it backfired on them. The Pens bought in and it doomed them to a 1st round exit.